Hosted and organized by the Korean Communications Commission (KCC), in the Jeju Islands, Republic of Korea, the 12th Session of the APT's General Assembly, has announced its two newly-elected Vice Presidents, to be Tonga's Mr. Paula Pouvalu Ma'u and Afghanistan's Mr. Zakaria Hassan, whilst the office for President was elected to the Republic of Korea's Mr. Young Kyu Noh replacing Dato Dr. Halim Bin Man from Malaysia.
According to Article 8, Paragraph 7, of the Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity, the President and two Vice Presidents will be elected from among the representatives of the Members of the Telecommunity at each ordinary session of the General Assembly of the APT.
The holders of these offices will be for a three year-period, until the next ordinary session of the General Assembly, and whereby the holders of office is eligible for re-election to the same office but no more than two consecutive terms.
At its 12th Session, key topics of discussion for this General Assembly not only included the elections process for offices of President and Vice Presidents for the General Assembly, but also the election process for the next Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity for the next term, 2012-2015.
The elections for these offices were awarded to Mr. Toshiyuki Yamada of Japan, who won by 28 votes against Dr. Kyu Jun Wee of Republic of Korea who only received 9 votes during the ballot.
Mr. Yamada was re-elected as Secretary General of the APT where his Deputy Secretary position re-elected Thailand's Mr. Kraisorn Pornsutee who was the only lone runner for this position.
Among the main topics of discussions at the General Assembly, were important considerations submitted by the Report of the Management Committee on activities of the APT during 2009-2011; the APT's Strategic Plan for 2012-2014 including its Annual Budget discussions and general administrative issues of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity's Members and International organizations affiliations
The next General Assembly will be considered at the APT Management Committee Meeting which will be held next week from 21-24 November, 2011.
Prior to the General Assembly, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati from the Pacific Islands were among new members who have been accepted by APT.APT is one of the key organizations of government spearheading development and innovation programs in cooperation with telecom service providers, manufacturers of communication equipment and research and development organizations in the field of Communications and Information Technology.
APT serves member countries on ICT in the Asia Pacific Region, of which Tonga is a member.
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Issued by the: Ministry of Information and Communications, Nuku'alofa, 2011.
